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... poets , and assured his permanent fame . Six years later ( 17 - B.C . ) , he was the natural choice of Augustus for ... poems . 10. The Epistles and Ars Poetica . There are two books of Epistles . Book I. was published in 20 B.C. , Book ...
... poets , and assured his permanent fame . Six years later ( 17 - B.C . ) , he was the natural choice of Augustus for ... poems . 10. The Epistles and Ars Poetica . There are two books of Epistles . Book I. was published in 20 B.C. , Book ...
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... Poems . - The Epodes also give us tokens of the coming patriotic poems that were destined to form so conspicuous and successful a feature in the Odes . The seventh epode , written in 38 B.C. at a time of threatened renewal of civil ...
... Poems . - The Epodes also give us tokens of the coming patriotic poems that were destined to form so conspicuous and successful a feature in the Odes . The seventh epode , written in 38 B.C. at a time of threatened renewal of civil ...
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... poets to whom he is not indebted in some degree . To Homer and Pindar , Anacreon and Archilochus , Stesichorus and Bacchylides , his obliga- tions are clear and often great , while the influence of the tragic poets , Aeschylus ...
... poets to whom he is not indebted in some degree . To Homer and Pindar , Anacreon and Archilochus , Stesichorus and Bacchylides , his obliga- tions are clear and often great , while the influence of the tragic poets , Aeschylus ...
Page xviii
... poems were the outcome of this purpose . Foremost in this class are to be ranked the six odes at the beginning of Book III . , in which the poet emphasizes the cardinal Roman virtues that had made Rome great in the past , and to which ...
... poems were the outcome of this purpose . Foremost in this class are to be ranked the six odes at the beginning of Book III . , in which the poet emphasizes the cardinal Roman virtues that had made Rome great in the past , and to which ...
Page xix
... poems dealing with alleged experiences of his own , the reader with diffi- culty escapes the conclusion that the experience is fictitious , or else that the poet lacked all depth of feeling . Other poems of this category and they are by ...
... poems dealing with alleged experiences of his own , the reader with diffi- culty escapes the conclusion that the experience is fictitious , or else that the poet lacked all depth of feeling . Other poems of this category and they are by ...
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ablative accusative adjective aetas Alcaeus Alcaic anaphora anastrophe Apollo apposition Apulia Asclepiadean atque Augustus Caesar Camenae Canidia clause colloquial cura dative dicere emphatic enim Ennius Epist epithet Epod erat etiam expression Faunus force genitive gods Greek haec hence Horace Horace's hunc hyperbaton illi infinitive inter Introd Latin litotes Lucilius Maecenas mala mare meaning Metre mihi modo multa natura neque nihil nisi nunc Octavian Odes olim omne omnis Outline Ovid participle pater pede Plaut Plin Poem poet poetic poetry Porph proverbial puer pueri quae quam quibus quid quis quod quoque reference rerum Roman Rome saepe satire satis semper sense Serm Sermones sibi simul sine sive slave subjunctive sunt syllable tamen Tarentum thee thou tibi Tibur tmesis Venusia verb verba verse Virg vowel wine word
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